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How can I attract more students to my courses?
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Navigation: Courses Marketing > How can I attract more students to my courses? |
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Q : How can I attract more students to my courses?
A : ForteMall provides you with many marketing tools that can be used to advertise your courses and school. Below are a few of them :
| • | Course post/bookmarking/email tool : When you offer a course, you will notice that there is a Course Widget and URL post/bookmarking/email tool on your course listing details page. You can post your course information to several places such as your blog, websites, and social networking sites profiles. You also can bookmark your course to several social bookmarking websites, and email your course information to your friends by using this tool. This tool can help to generate worldwide exposure for your courses. |
[ Course Bookmarking Widget ]
Here we show you how to embed your course widget to your blog:
1. Click "Blogger" button to get started.
[ Example: Course Widget Posting Step 1 ]
2. Enter your Blogger account username and password, select "Post to sidebar" box, and click "Post" button.
[ Example: Course Widget Posting Step 2 ]
3. Now you should see your course widget has been added to your blog.
[ Example: Course Widget Posting Step 3 ]
| • | School post/bookmarking/email tool : When you launch your school, you will notice that there is a School Widget and URL post/bookmarking/email tool on your school home page. You can post your school information to several places such as your blog, websites, and social networking sites profiles. You also can bookmark your school to several social bookmarking websites, and email your school information to your friends by using this tool. This tool can help to generate worldwide exposure for your school. The usage of School post/bookmarking/email tool is the same with Course post/bookmarking/email tool. |
[ School Bookmarking Widget ]
| • | Account Profile Widget : You will notice your own profile widget HTML code in Member's Area -> About Me -> Profile Widget HTML page. You can embed your profile to several places such as your blog, websites, and social networking sites profiles. This tool can help to generate worldwide exposure for your courses and school. |
[ Account Profile Widget]
Here we show you an example how to embed your ForteMall profile into your blog: Embed ForteMall profile to Blogger.com.
1. Please view Member's Area -> About Me -> Profile Widget HTML page. Select and copy all HTML code in box.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 1 ]
2. Visit Blogger.com and sign in with your Blogger account. Click "Layout" link to edit your layout.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 2 ]
3. Click "Add a Gadget" to add a gadget.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 3 ]
4. Select HTML/JavaScript gadget to add.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 4 ]
5. Paste HTML code that you copied from step 1 to Content box and enter a title for your gadget. Click "Save" button to save settings.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 5 ]
6. Now you should see a ForteMall Profile gadget has been added to your layout. Click "Save" button to save settings.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger Step 6 ]
7. Back to your blog. Now you can see your ForteMall profile has been added to your blog. It includes your courses link, RSS feed link, and reputation information.
[ Example: Embed Profile to Blogger]
| • | Social Networking Application : ForteMall has officially launched its Facebook and Bebo application. With ForteMall Facebook and Bebo application, your courses and school on ForteMall will be linked directly into Facebook and Bebo pages and users' profiles can be shared among users. This can help to generate worldwide exposure for your courses and school! If you have joined Facebook and Bebo, you can add these applications and start to share your courses and school with your friends right now. |
| • | Courses and School URL : This is the simplest way to advertise your courses and school. Just add your course URL links and school URL link anywhere that you think it would be helpful for you to advertise your courses and school. |
| • | Accumulate your reputation score: Providing good or excellent teaching service is the best marketing strategy. Once you provided excellent teaching service, you should spread it among students. Ask for positive reputation comments from students after finishing teaching. Students can rate teachers through Member's Area -> Enrolling -> Enrolled Courses by clicking "Leave Comment" link. PS. In order to increase accuracy of relationship between reputation score and transaction, this feature only enabled in paid courses. |
[ Leave Comment Link ]
[ Rate a Teacher ]
| • | Upgrade your course listings to prominent listings: Prominent listing upgrade options are some of ForteMall value added services (optional paid services). You can purchase these options to upgrade your course listing when you creating your course. These prominent listing upgrade options offer a lot of exposure chances for your courses. Prominent listing upgrade takes effect for course listing life cycle, i.e., it will be valid until your course listing become closed (You close your course listing or all seats of your course are sold out). Note that using ForteMall value added optional services will charge you a little service fees. Please refer to ForteMall Business Model and Fees section for more details. |
[ Prominent listing upgrade options ]
| • | Launch your school: School subscription service is one of ForteMall value added services (optional paid services). You can launch a school to increase sales for your courses. Your school will be displayed at many places at ForteMall. For example, you will get many chances that your school be displayed in "Recommended School" area of categories pages. When students browse categories, they will notice these recommended schools. Note that using ForteMall value added optional services will charge you a little service fees. Please refer to ForteMall Business Model and Fees section for more details. |
[ Launch School ]
[ Recommended Schools ]
| • | Twitter Widget: If you are a Twitter.com user, you can tweet your course listing(s) by clicking the retweet button. |
[ Tweet your course listings ]
| • | Course marketing tips by David Kirby : There is a free e-book described many course marketing tips and skills. View this free e-book directly through below embedded block: |
The Secrets to Generate Income Online by Teaching Your Own Expertise (Killer Money Making Strategy) 2009 Se...
| • | Other marketing skills and tips : There are several marketing tips you can find in our online help. For details, please refer to Marketing Tips section in the online help. |